if you always restart your diet on Monday, watch this

27 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short motivational video, Eric Roberts addresses a common mindset among people trying to lose weight: the tendency to treat a single slip‑up—like a bad meal or a missed workout—as a reason to abandon the diet for an entire weekend. He uses the analogy of a bag of groceries with one bad apple, explaining that you wouldn’t discard the whole bag, you’d simply remove the bad apple. Roberts argues that perfection is unrealistic; life brings chaos, illness, busy work schedules, travel, and other disruptions. The key to lasting results is not striving for flawless adherence but quickly returning to consistent habits after any setback. By maintaining consistency over time, you’ll achieve sustainable fat loss.

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I'll restart on Monday. You ever said that to yourself? Most people, when they try to lose fat, have one bad day or bad meal and they think, well, I ruined it, and they use that as an excuse to then stay off track the entire weekend. That's like if you got a bag of groceries and there was one bad apple in the entire bag of groceries. You wouldn't throw out the rest of the groceries. You would just take the one apple and throw that one out. So being perfect isn't the goal because that's not realistic. You're gonna life craziness. Your kids are gonna get sick, work is gonna be really busy, you're gonna travel, go on vacation. You need to stop freaking out when that happens because as long as you just get right back on track and stay consistent, you're going to see